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By Natalie Rayment You’ve lived in this suburb for most of your adult life. Your kids grew up here and your friends are close by. But, the house has become…

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By Natalie Rayment A “tragic street lamp”, “ungainly skeleton” and “a hole-riddled suppository”. This is how protesters once described the proposed Eiffel Tower in the 1880s. There was even a…

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By Natalie Rayment Being the ‘King of Cool’, if Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli were a millennial he would have a deconstructed coffee and some smashed avo for breakfast at the local…

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By Natalie Rayment The community initiated a state ministerial call-in of a development approval for the West Village Project at West End.   A ministerial call-in allows the relevant Minister to…

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Thank you to Jane Pinder and the team at The Courier-Mail for a great piece at the weekend that revealed good development actually leads to increased greenspace rather than destroying…

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By Natalie Rayment It is a continuously evolving precinct within 3kms of Brisbane’s CBD that used to be home to the commander of the Beagle (of Charles Darwin fame) and…

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By Natalie Rayment “Our challenge was to create a vital public place at the district – urban scale, in other words, to address the issue of mega scale and invent…

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By Natalie Rayment You know your movement is gaining traction when the US President gets behind it. Media outlets following last month’s world first YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard)…

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By Natalie Rayment What will South East Queensland look like in 50 years’ time?  We know many of us would like to see people riding hover boards Marty McFly style…

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By Natalie Rayment The YIMBY, or Yes In My Back Yard movement is gaining momentum around the globe, and most people don’t realise they’re a part of it. It’s a…

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